Beer-tap.



A. GOETZ.

BEER TA'P.

APPLICATION FILED AU'G. I2, 1914.

1,182,675. Patented May 9, 1916.

2 SHEETS-SHEET I.

TTORNEYS A. Gonz. BEER T AP.

APPLICATION FILED AUGJZ, 1914.

Patented May 9,1916.

I By w ATTORNEYS AUGUST GOETZ, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

BEER-TAP.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 9, 1916.

Application led August 12, 1914. Serial No. 856,354.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that 1, AUGUST Gon'rz, a citi` zen of the United States, anda resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the countyand State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Beer- Tap, ofwhich the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Among the principal objects which the present invention has in view are:to provide a tap of the character mentioned with means for closing themovable member preliminary to separating it from the stationary memberof said tap; to provide a drawolf pipe with a closable key valve adaptedto open the draw-off valve of a tap, said key valve being arranged forclosure as a preliminary to the closing of the draw-off valve; toprovide a handle-like pipe-connecting extension for the movable memberof said key valve; and to provide apressuresupply pipe and aliquid-delivering pipe with means for automatically opening and closingthe same when connecting to or disconnecting from a liquid supply.

Drawings-Figure 1 is a side elevation of a barrel equipped with apressure supply and draw-ofi1 connections constructed and arranged inaccordance with the present invention;.F ig. 2 is a side view, on anenlarged scale, of a connecting key and a valve plug operable inconnection therewith, said plug being shown in section; Fig. 3 is alongitudinal section taken on the line 3 3 in Figs. 2 and 4; Fig. 4 is across section taken as on the lines 4 4 in Figs. 2 and 3; Fig` 5 is anend view of the key valve, showing the engagement socket thereof;

Fig. 6 is a side view, partly cut away, of the key valve employed forconnecting the gas or air pressure; Fig. 7 is an end view of the same;Fig. S is a longitudinal cross section of a connecting nipple having anair check valve mounted thereon.

Description- The valve plug 12 is of conventional form and construction,and is provided with a screw-thread section 13. The threads on thesection 13 are sharp, the purpose being to sink into bung-holes formedin the side and top of barrels or kegs now employed in the industry towhich the taps relate. The plug 12 is inserted in the barrel until aflange 14 rests against the outer surface of the material of which saidbarrel is constructed. The plug 12 is molded to form an enlarged innerchamber 15,

the bottom wall 16 of which is suitably perforated to form ports, whichare normally closed by a valve cover 17. The valve cover 17 has ahub-like extension 1S, through which the shank of a screw 19 normallyextends. The shank of 'the screw 19 is keyed to the cover 17, to movetherewith, and is rotatably mounted in the bottom wall 16 of the plug12. The rectangular wrench head 2O is provided with a flange 21, whichholds the screw 19 at one end against the pressure of a nut 22 at theopposite end. The end of the screw and the nuts 22 and 23 are covered bya cap nut 24.

The head 20 is engaged by a socket 25 in the reduced end 26 of the body27 of the key valve. rlhe reduced end 26 extends within the chamber 15,as shown best in Fig. 2 of the drawings; and is provided withlaterally-opening ports 28, through which the liquid in the chamber 15flows to a chamber 29, within the body 27 as best seen in Fig. 3 of thedrawings. To seal the chamber 15, an internal liange 30 is provided,said flange having a central opening forming a passage for the reducedend 26. lThe upper surface of the flange 30 is faced to receive a softgasket 31. To force the gasket 31 against the flange 30, to therebyperfect the seal for the chamber 15, a series of cams 32 are formed onand extended from the side of the body 27, adjacent the end of theenlarged portion thereof.

As shown best in Figs. 2 and 3 of the drawings, the body 27 hasintegrally formed thereon a short, laterally-extended by-pass channel33. The by-pass channel 33 is designedI to straddle a partition 34, withwhich the tapered valve plug 35 is provided. The plug 35 is open at bothends, one end being in communication with the chamber 29, and the otherwith the bore 36 of a handle connector 37, with the latter of which saidplug is rigidly secured, being screwed therein, as seen best in Fig. 3of the drawings. The plug 35 is bored from each end to the partition 34,forming in this manner two channels 38 and 39. The channels 38 and 39have port openings 40 and 41, respectively. The port openings 40 and 41are alined, and o pen into the by-pass channel 33 when the plug 35 isrotated so as to expose said openings to said channel.

. To register the port openings 40 and 41 with the channel 33, thehandle connector 37 is furnished with a finger 42, which eX- tends intothe path of an abutment 43 laterally projecting from the body 27. Theclosed position of said port openings is regulated by an abutment 44,against which the finger 42 rests when the handle connector 37 is movedin the opposite direction. In both instances, the finger 42 is reliedupon to rotate the body 27 to turn the cover 17 so that the portstherein register with or move away from the port in the wall 16 of theplug 12. 1n this manner, it will be seen that before the key valve maybe moved to turn the cover 17 to either open or close the same, the plug35 is preliminai-ily rotated to clear or close the passage formed by thechannels 38, 39 and 33. If it is desired to remove the valve plug 12,the handle connector o7 is rotated from the position shown in Figs. 1, 3and 4, until the finger 42 engages the abutment 44. Vhen the finger 42thus engages the abutment 44, it will be noted that the passage throughthe key valve is closed. lVhen, now, the handle connector 37 is furthermoved to rotate the key valve and the cover 17 until said'covercloses'the ports in the wall 1G, which action places the cams 32opposite cut-away portions of the inner extension of the fiange 14, thekey valve may be removed from the head 2O of the screw 19. It will nowbe noted that by the same action the valve plug 12 and the key valve atthe end of the delivery pipe have both been closed, so that after theseparation thereof. the pressure in the pipe 45 does not work backthrough the system, to be discharged from the key valve. To hold thepipe 45, there is provided a fluted, tapered end 46.

To hold the plug seated in the body 27 provide a slip-cap 47. Theslip-cap 47 is centrally bored to provide a shoulder 48, which registerswith a bearing shoulder on the plug 35, as best seen in Fig. 3 of thedrawings. The cap 47 is provided with apron-like guide extensions 50,and with ears 51, in which perforations are formed to receive screws 52.The screws 52 engage tapped perforations 53 in the abutments 43 and 44.By manipulating the screws 52, the plug 35 may be forced within the body27, to thereby take up any wear which may from time to time occur. Thespace 49 allows for taking up wear in the plug 35 by means of the screw52.

In the modified form of the invention as shown in Figs. 6, 7 and 8 ofthe drawings, a valve handle 54 is substituted for the connector 37. Thehandle 54 has a finger 42, which engages the abutments 43 and 44 on thebody 27, as in the previously-described construction. A furthermodification resides in the construction of the plug 35, the end whereofis tapped to engage the screwthreaded section 55 of afluted nipple 56,to which an air or gas supply pipe 57 is attached. As shown in F ig. 8of the drawings, the nipple 56 has a central passage 58, the inner endwhereof is fitted with a split rubber check-valve 59 of conventionalform and construction.

The operation of the modified form of the key valve and valve plug issimilar to that above described.

Claims:

1. A beer tap, comprising a valve plug having an interior chamberprovided with inlet and outlet ports; a rotary cover adapted to closesaid inlet ports; a key member operatively connected with said cover andextending within said chamber; a key valve having a hollow body portionopen at both ends, one end being adapted for location within the chamberof said plug to enga-ge therein said key member; a rotary plug disposedin said body, said plug having a bisected channel therethrough, saidchannel having laterally-opening ports; a by-pass having openingsadapted to register with said ports laterally opening; means foroperating said rotary p ug; means connecting said rotary plug and saidbody portion,

for limiting the independent movement ,y

thereof; and means for connecting the channel in said rotary plug with adistribution system.

2. A beer tap, comprising a valve plug having an interior chamberprovided with inlet and outlet ports; a rotary cover adapted to closesaid inlet ports; a key member operatively connected with said cover andextending within said chamber; a key valve having a hollow bodyportion'open at both ends, one end being adapted for location within thechamber of said plug to engage therein said key member; a rotary plugdisposed in said body portion, said plug having a bisected channeltherethrough, said channel having laterally-opening ports; a by-passhaving openings adapted to register with said ports laterally opening;means for operating said rotary plug; means connecting said rotary plug'and said body portion, for limiting the independent movement thereof;and a handle connector rigidly connected with said rotary plug inperpendicular relation thereto, said connector being adapted to beunited to a distributing pipe.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

AUGUST GOETZ.

lVitnesses:

C. E. Honskn, PHILIP D. RoLLHAUs.

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